Bracket-support for window-shades



DAVID D. OOONNELL,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF WALLACE, IDAHO.

BRACKET-SUPPORT FOR WINDOW-SHADES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 625,593, dated May 23, 1899.

Application led October 5 l 898,.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID D. OCONNELL, of lVallace, in the county of Shoshone and State of Idaho, have invented a new and Improved Bracket-Support for Window-Shades, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a bracket-support for Window-shades which can be conveniently and expeditiously adjusted to any width of window 5 and a further object of the invention is to provide-a meanswhereby the bracket-support may be secured to the window-casing in a manner that will not injure the casin g to any appreciable extent and whereby the fixture may be readily taken down and quickly put up.

A further object of the invention is to provide hangers for the shade, which hangers are adjustable in the said bracket.

-The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved bracket applied to the Window-frame. Fig; 2 is a plan View of the bracket; and Fig. 3 is a plan View of a portion of the bracket, illustrating a slight modification in the formation of its outer ends.

The bracket consists of two bars A and B,

'of suitable material, the two bars being flat,

so that one can slide upon the other. The

inner end portions of the bars are placed one in engagement with the other, and the said bars are preferably of equal length.l The bar B, which is the outer bar, is provided with a series of longitudinallyarranged keyholeslots 10, and the bar A is provided with a series of correspondingly-shaped openings or apertures 13, the apertures in both bars being in the same horizontal line. The round portions `of the apertures in both bars face the outer ends of the bars, the straight portions of the apertures facing the inner ends of said bars, as shown best in Fig. 1.

The outer bar B at its inner end is provided with a button 11, attached to its rear face by Serial No. 692,677. (No model.)

a shank 12, the button being of such size that it may pass through the round portion of an aperture 13 of the barA, and the shank is of such dimensions that it may slide in the elongated portions of such aperture. `A button 14 is located also at the inner end of the inner bar A, but the button 14 is located at the outer face of the bar A, being connected therewith by a shank 15. The button 14- is adapted to enter the round portion of the slot 10 in the front bar B,and theshank 15 is adapted tohave movement in the elongated portion of the aperture 10. Vertical openings 1G are produced near the outer end of the bar B, and corresponding openings 17 are produced near the outer end of the bar A; but preferably the ver-` and the outer member 19 of each hanger is much wider than the inner member 18, whereby shoulders 2() are formed, since the inner member 18 of a hanger is located at the cen-` tral portion of the outer member 19, as shown in Fig. 1. These hangers are placed in position on the bracket by introducing the narrow member 18 into one of the slots 16 or 17 and after the member has fully entered the slot turning the hanger so as to bring the outer member 19 at a right angle to the bracket and the shoulder 20 againstone of the bars A or B, as shown in Fig. 2. While the hangers will remain in place without any clamp, the shade separating them, the inner member of the hangers when the bracket is placed in position on the window-casing usually engages with the front of the window-casing and is held firmly between the bracket and the casing.

The outer ends of the bars of the bracket may be bent inwardly at an angle to thev body of the bars, as shown in Fig; 2, forming arms 21,in which event screws 22 are passed through threaded openings in thesaid arms, and the said screws terminate at their inner ends in shoes 23, provided with spurs adapted to enter the casing, as shown in Fig. 2. This form of terminal for the bracket-bars is usually em- IOO ployed when the window-casing stands out a sufficient distance from the Wall to permit its use; but if the casing should be close to the Wall the outer ends of the bracket-bars are straight, and set-screws 24 are passed through the said ends and into the casing, as shown in Fig. 3. Y

This device is exceedingly simple, durable, and economic, and, as heretofore stated, may be attached to any size of Window and may be expeditiously and conveniently set up or taken down.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A Window-shade bracket, consisting of bars held to slide upon each other, each bar being provided with a series of keyhole-slots, said slots in said bars being in horizontal alinement, buttons attached to the inner end portions of the bars, said buttons facing in opposite directions, the buttons being adapted to enter and to slide in said keyhole-slots,

each bar being provided also with vertical openings near its outer ends, angular hangers, one member of the said hangers being adapted to enter the said openings, and clamping devices located at the outer ends of the said bars, for the purpose set forth.

2. A Window-shade bracket, consisting of bars mounted to slide one upon the other, each bar being provided with a series of lon gitudinally-arranged keyhole-slots, the slots in the bars being in horizontal 'alinement, each bar being provided also with a button at its inner end, connected with the bar bya shank, said buttons facing in opposite directions, being adapted to enter and to slide in the keyholefslots, each bar having also a series of vertical openings made therein near its outer end, anglebrackets, one memberv whereof is adapted to support the trunnion of a shade, the other member being of reduced Width and adapted to entera vertical opening and engage with the inner face of a bracket-bar, and clamping devices located at the outer end portions of the said bars, for the purpose described.

DAVID D. O CONNELL- Witnesses:

CHARLES L. YOUNG, JAMES W. NALLY. 

